The Legend of the Ming City God

In the 25th year of Hongwu's reign in the Ming Dynasty, on the night of the first thunderstorm in the Mei Dynasty, in the Yingtianfu City God's Temple, the eyelids of the statue of Marquis Jiang slowly opened, and two lines of sticky gold liquid fell from the corners of the eyes - like tears, more like blood. On the same night, four craftsmen who were touching up the paint on the statue died suddenly, and their deaths seemed like "divine punishment." For a time, rumors that "the city god was seeking his life" spread like wildfire, and people all over the city did not dare to leave their homes at night. Former prison student Shen Que was demoted from the court due to his father's case and hid in the market to help others redress their grievances. He doesn't believe in ghosts and gods, he only believes in evidence and people's hearts. In order to investigate a buried murder case for his late father, he was involved in the "Golden Blood Ballad Case". Accompanying him are Su Muyan, the female owner of the rouge shop who is full of institutional poison but whose life experience is a mystery, and Qian Xiaoduo, who is full of charlatanism and whose fortune-telling is always inaccurate but can dig out key clues. Three seemingly unrelated people were pushed to the same chess table by an invisible hand. There are no gods under the golden light, only humans. White phosphorus mixed with tung oil can act as a secret agent, and Hsinchu paper can create an old account that is fake and real. Shen Que used books of unpopular miscellaneous knowledge to tear apart the institutions and people's hearts behind each "miracle". But when the truth was dug deeper and deeper, he discovered that there was a case in the case: the Marquis Jiang who everyone worshiped in Yingtian City was just a knife used to "tame officials and calm the people"; in the name of "supporting new gods", the God-for-God Society was gradually extending its black hands to the people's hearts and military power in a city. The white horse walks through the secret passage of Zhongshan Mountain every night, and there is always half a piece of unfinished caramel falling beside the wet hoofprints.